24th Annual Cary Kwanzaa Celebration Dec 28th 115 Cary Arts Center

Cary, NC — Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa (or all of them!), here is a long list of events to consider adding to your seasonal celebrations in Cary.

November 19: Holiday Open up House & Tree Lighting

4-seven PM | Waverly Place | 302 Colonades Way

If you're looking for a fun fashion to kicking off the holiday season, consider Waverly Place's Vacation Open Business firm and Tree Lighting Celebration this Friday.

Join the retailers and restaurants for a special Vacation Open Business firm from 4-7 PM. Guests can stroll through Waverly Place to relish special tastings, sales, promotions and in-store events. A full list of participating locations will be bachelor soon! In improver, families tin relish strolling juggling and stilt walking acts, face painting and caricature artists.

Live musicians will have the stage at vi PM as guests gather in The Park for the Tree Lighting Celebration. Enjoy a performance from the Athens Drive Magnet High School Band at 6:45 PM and and then welcome Santa to the stage for a inaugural to the tree lighting. Following the tree lighting, Santa and Mrs. Claus will be available for pictures, so don't forget to bring your camera!

November 30: Cary's Menorah Lighting

Nov 30, 2021 | 5:thirty p.thou. | Cary Arts Center

Celebrate the Festival of Lights outside the Cary Arts Center as the menorah is ceremonially lit on the third night of Hanukkah.

The Town of Cary has partnered with the Beth Shalom congregation, Jewish Federation of Raleigh-Cary, and Chabad of Cary for a special commemoration with treats, fun for kids, and holiday music for all to enjoy. Rabbis Ariel Edery (Beth Shalom) and Rabbi Yisroel Cotlar (Chabad) will be performing the lighting ceremony and will be joined by speaker and Jewish Federation chair, Amy Bush.

December three: Town of Morrisville Tree Lighting

6-8 PM | Indian Creek Greenway & Trailhead | 101 Boondocks Hall Drive, Morrisville

Join our neighbors in Morrisville as they boot off the holiday season with the Town of Morrisville Tree Lighting event!

Santa Claus and the Town Quango volition be counting downwardly the lighting of the tree afterwards some fun and entertainment. Visit the special events page for upwardly-to-date details.

December three-6: It'due south A Wonderful Life, Live Radio Play

Inspired by the archetype American film, It'due south a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play is performed as a 1940s live radio circulate in front end of a studio audience. 5 actors perform the dozens of characters in the radio play.

The bandage and coiffure of The Cary Players Community Theater Visitor will exist putting on five shows in 4 days! Don't miss the chance to buy tickets and read fifty-fifty more about the testify on The Cary Players website.

December 4: Town of Cary'due south Heart Of the Holidays Celebration

Cary's Official Tree Lighting

6 PM | Town Hall Campus

Welcome the holiday season with the official Christmas tree lighting for the Town of Cary. This festive night features actors, singers, and musicians from the customs and is capped by the lighting of the official Town of Cary Christmas Tree.

Gingerbread House Competition

Visit Downtown Cary as it is transformed into a walking gallery of apprentice gingerbread houses. Local participants piece of work difficult to design, create, and display a gingerbread business firm that is yummy enough for an elf'south visit! All houses will exist on display in select downtown businesses on Sat, December 4 with the winners existence displayed all December long at the Cary Arts Center.

Want to participate? There'due south still time to sign upward before the 5 PM deadline on Tuesday, November 23. See the open registration folio.

Victorian Christmas at the Page-Walker

3-vi PM | Page-Walker Arts & History Centre

Enjoy an erstwhile-fashioned Christmas temper at the old hotel this winter!

At that place volition exist cookies, carolers, an activity for kids, heritage music, and opportunities for festive photos in the garden. Weather-permitting, most activities will have place exterior.

December v: Cocoa with Santa at Crossroads

Crossroads Plaza | 11 AM – ii PM

Come on by Crossroads Plaza for free Cocoa with Santa on Dec 5th, 11 AM – 2 PM in front of Dicks Sporting Goods. Everyone gets free hot cocoa and to say hi to Santa. Plus, the first 200 families volition also receive a free Christmas decoration.

December 5: Fortnight Before Christmas Party

five PM | Fortnight Brewing Visitor

This unique, virtual-style race volition benefit US Veterans Corps Toys for Lil' Troops. Running from November. 28-Dec. five, the race results will exist posted on December fifth at v PM and an in-person party will be held subsequently at Fortnight where racers and supporters can bask some great beers.

This race is brought back this year in partnership with Fit & Able as part of their holiday race series. This yr the Fortnight Before Christmas will be all virtual with ane Mile, 2 Mile, or 3 Mile race options.

For more on racer swag and post-race political party foods, meet the race website.

December 9: Cary Town Band Winterfest Concert

7:30 PM| Cary Arts Middle

Celebrate Hanukkah, Winter Solstice, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Beethoven's 251st birthday, and more with the Cary Town Band. For additional info visit their website

December eleven: Cary Jaycees Christmas Parade

two-4 PM | E. Chatham Street

Bring your talents and holiday cheer to the 42nd annual Cary Jaycees Christmas Parade in downtown Cary. The parade is a blithesome commemoration that includes bands, mascots, local businesses, customs groups, and churches.

The parade starts on E. Chatham Street at Ward St, proceeds downwardly E. Chatham to S. Academy Street, turns left onto S. University Street, and ends at Dry Ave in front end of the Cary Arts Center. See the map and more details on the parade's Facebook Event Page.

December eleven: The Concert Singers of Cary'southward Holiday Pops Concert

vii:30 PM| Cary Arts Middle

Go into the vacation spirit with the wonderful sounds of the talented Concert Singers of Cary equally they perform all your vacation favorites. Tickets

December 12: Gingerbread Cookies & Crafts

i-iii PM | Parkside Town Commons, Flour Power Kids Cooking Studios

Bring the family and create mini gingerbread cookies together that will leave Santa asking for seconds!

At Flour Ability, kids volition get to stir, decorate and relish gingerbread cookies and too accept some fun making gingerbread crafts that yous can take home to savor too! The price for this feel is $39 for one adult and i child. $15 per additional person. Here'due south the result/registration page.

December 17-nineteen: Cary Ballet Company's Nutcracker

Diverse Times| Cary Arts Center

The Company presents its full-length and mini-performances to a live audition this year. The classic holiday ballet follows Clara and her fantasy dream world of princes, and fairies, with air current-up living dolls, a strutting soldier doll and more. After the Saturday Matinee performance, in that location will exist a Ballerina Tea. For all show data visit their website

December 18-19: A Very Merry Cary Holiday Market

four-viii PM | Sometime Library Site, 310 S. Academy Street

Join us this holiday season for 2 evenings in downtown Cary to store local! We are taking over the One-time Library Site on University Street for a holiday event you lot don't desire to miss, including:

Over 30 local artisans
Food Trucks
Santa
Holiday lights
A lifesize snow globe (December. 19th only)
Holiday Themed stilt walkers from Imagine Circus
Live Music

December thirty: Cary's 27th Annual Kwanzaa Celebration

12-4 | Cary Arts Center

Don't miss the 27th Annual Cary Kwanzaa Celebration at The Cary Arts Center. Cary Kwanzaa is a communal, cultural celebration that honors African-American people and their heritage. The Kwanzaa Celebration is produced by the Town of Cary in partnership with the Ujima Group Inc. Here'south the day's full lineup:

12-2 PM: Children'due south Village: storytelling, African Dance, drumming
two PM: Traditional Kwanzaa Anniversary: presented by the Ujima Group, Inc.
2:30 PM: United Strings of Color: The Yoruba tale ofIjapa and Mr. Igbin. Music & narration
3 PM: Harambee Collective: Art of African Dance and Music

Story and featured image by Ashley Kairis. Photos courtesy of participating organizations and business concern websites.

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